Underground Art Gallery

We bring innovative media and visual artists to the Capital Region of New York State, and are dedicated to presenting artists whom mainstream media and art venues often neglect.  We especially seek artists who push their art to create new languages and expressive forms; we feature works with an aesthetic and conceptual edge that challenge the viewers to look at the world anew.

NOW SHOWING IN THE GALLERY!!!

Photo journalist Brenda Ann Kenneally's

"Upstate Girls: What Became of Collar City"

We strive to inspire folks by bringing visibility to cutting edge creative projects and networks, and by educating them to use media arts and technology for creative resistance projects designed to motivate citizens to integrate art and independent, critical thinking into their active lives.

Check out more about Brenda Ann Kenneally's "Upstate Girls"  at:  the Raw Files.

“Upstate Girls” is a look at a part of working class America that, despite sweeping technological advances, remains essentially unchanged since the heyday of the Industrial Revolution—an indictment of the by-products of globalization that shape the American visual and social landscape. The ongoing project aims deep into the emotional and psychological cycle of poverty from a women’s eye view.

The photographs are on display in the Underground Gallery at The Sanctuary for Independent Media, available for viewing an hour before, during and an hour after events and by arrangement. Visit www.therawfile.org for more of Brenda Ann Kenneally’s work.

Award-winning photographer Brenda Ann Kenneally is a mother and an independent journalist whose long-term projects are intimate portraits of social issues that intersect where the personal is political. She began reporting in 2004 on the lives of five teen girls from north Troy who would come of age in an industrial city in post-industrial America. She is working to push the boundaries of the social document, using the web as a tool to expand and contextualize her immersion style of reporting. Her many awards include the W. Eugene Smith Award for Humanistic Photography, a Soros Criminal Justice Fellowship, the Mother Jones Documentary Photography Award, the International Prize for Photojournalism, a Nikon Sabbatical Grant, the National Press Photographers Association’s Best of Photojournalism award, and the Cannon Female Photojournalism Grant. Born in Albany, she now lives in Brooklyn.

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Media Alliance's Arts and Education program strives to inspire folks by bringing visibility to cutting edge creative projects and networks. We use media arts and technology for creative resistance projects designed to motivate citizens to integrate art and independent, critical thinking into their active lives.

Just a few doors down from the lot in the photo above, where "Sponge Bob" poses, the Sanctuary's Underground Art Gallery is a recently remodeled 280 sq. ft. museum quality gallery exposition space. The walls are painted matte white for traditional gallery appearance and the ceiling exposes extensive track lighting that can be adjusted to suite any exhibit. It's uniqueness lies in its hallway linearity, allowing the viewer to flow through the space.

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